Okay. I'll look forward to check out Time machine.
Best regards
Søren Jensen
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On 31/08/2008, at 13.45, Scott Howell wrote:
Time Machine will backup the entire disk if that is what you wish.
This would of course include all your settings etc. You can of
course opt to only backup those files and folders you feel are
necessary. For example, you may not want to backup all the
applications, but you do want their configuration files etc. Most
apps store these in your user Library folder or the system Library
folder. SO you could exclude the applications folder if you wanted.
hth
On Aug 31, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Cool. Thanks for your answers. I assume Time machine backup all the
settings?
Best regards
Søren Jensen
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On 29/08/2008, at 20.32, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi. You can use your Leopard install dvd to restore a time
machine backup. However, that backup is not bootable itself.
What I would suggest you do, assuming your external drive is large
enough, is to partition it in to two parts. Use one of these for
time machine, and use the other one to make a bootable clone of
your drive. In an emergency situation, you can get things up and
running much faster with a bootable clone. You can use something
like carbon copy cloner to do this.
Darcy
On 29-Aug-08, at 7:11 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Hi Chris.
I'll get an external hard disc very soon which I'll use together
with Time Machine.
If I choose to make a backup of the whole system, can I then boot
the system up from my external hard disc? In other words: Does
Time Machine backs up the whole operating system which I can
restore if the whole system crash?
Best regards Søren.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: Time Machine.
Format? Your drive should already be formatted. The first backup
will take quite a while as Time Machine will be copying pretty
much the entire contents of your hard drive to the external
drive. USB is also much slower than Firewire so that will
contribute to dragging out the first backup process. Most of the
stats I've seen for USB2 show throughput pegging at about 10MB/s
while FW400 pegs at about 30MB/s. I'm sure with lots of little
files both of those rates drop. So if we assume you have maybe
75GB of stuff to backup and you get maybe 7.5MB/s that would be
10,000 seconds or about 2.8 hours.
CB
Andrew Ireland wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone advise how long a 250GB USB external drive should
take to format
using Time Machine? It's been running for about 40 Minutes.
Voiceover
doesn't appear to interact with the window that is open, all I
can get out
of it is "busy".
Thanks in advance
Andrew
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